In this position you will collaborate with various senior leaders and their respective teams to develop and execute PXT strategy and activities to foster growth innovation and organizational this role you must understand business priorities and translate them into an HR agenda and goals that support the business. You will be required to assess the Human Resource needs for one or more physical and virtual customer services sites spread across Germany in areas such as staffing employee relations compensation career development and leadership development and drive the appropriate solutions in these areas. You will take ownership for designing building and implementing programs processes and tools to help new managers and employees successfully transition into and thrive in Amazons unique customer-centric environment. You will be critical in helping maintain our peculiar culture as we grow. This position is both a strategic and hands-on role that provides full cycle Human Resources support. The role is critical in executing our people initiatives providing great internal customer support and driving HR functional excellence and process improvement for these sites. The role is also that of a people manager requiring you to attract engage motivate and retain high performing talent while driving organizational and site specific people goals.
Key job responsibilities
- Work with senior management to develop and implement HR plans and solutions to achieve strategic business initiatives and deliver results.
- Partner with business on organizational design workforce planning succession planning and skills assessment.
- Review and analyze business unit data to identify trends and recommend solutions to improve performance retention and employee experience
- Provide management coaching to build leadership capabilities to address and resolve employee issues
- Work with line managers and employees to address all types of employee relations issues ensuring a balance in representing all interests
- Implement/administer/interpret corporate policies/programs/procedures
- Plan and provide continuous improvement to all aspects of the client organization and leadership review process and the strategic objectives therein. This includes both annual and mid-year processes which focus on performance management and talent development.
- Working with business groups assess create and implement innovative solutions for a variety of employee engagement initiatives within client group
- Provide ongoing support to the leadership team on human resources related matters policies and procedures
- Provide compensation support including salary planning approval of salary actions creation of new job families promotions and job re-leveling.
- Experience as a human resource generalist
- Speak write and read fluently in German
- Speak write and read fluently in English
- Experience supporting hourly employee client groups
- Experience with MS Office tools and HR Information Systems
- Bachelors degree in Human Resources Management or a related field
- Experience with specific knowledge of human resource theory functions and practice performance appraisal systems and staff development
- Experience of working with German Work Councils
- Experience with local labor law
- Masters degree or above in Human Resources Management Business Administration or a related field
- Experience developing and administering HR compensation plans
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